in the paths of life and sanctity for those blessed waitings and knocking 's at the door of my heart patiently tarrying for me for all the holy Sermons spiritual Books and Lessons for all the good Prayers and Meditations loving and inviting me to repentance without ceasing admonishing me and reproving me with the check of a tender conscience with exteriour and interiour motives and for whatsoever means or incentives of holiness thou hast assisted me withall I Magnifie and praise thy holy Name for thy goodness to all Nations whom thou hast made and sanctified they shall come and worship thee O Lord and shall glorifie thy Name for thou art great and dost wondrous things thou art God alone and great is thy mercy towards me thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell therefore shall every good man sing of thy praise without ceasing O my God I will give thanks unto thee for ever with Cherubims and Seraphims and all the company of the heavenly Host saying Holy Holy Holy Lord God of Sabbath holy is our God holy is the Immortal holy is the Almighty the Father Son and the Holy Ghost to whom be honour and glory dominion and power ascribed of all spirits and all men and all creatures now and for evermore Amen A Prayer preparatory to the Receiving of the blessed Sacrament O Most immaculate and glorious Jesu he hold me a miserable sinner drawing near unto thee with the approaches of humility and earnest desire to be cleansed from my sins and to be united to thee by the nearest and most mysterious union of Charity and Sacramental participation of thy most precious body and blood I presume nothing of my own worthiness but I am most confident of thy mercies and infinite loving kindness I know O Lord I am blind and sick and dead and naked and therefore I come the rather I am sick and thou art my Physician thou arisest with healing in thy wings by thy wounds I come to be cured and to be healed by thy stripes I am unclean but thou art the fountain of purity I am blind but thou art the great Eye of the World the Son of Righteousness in thy light I shall see light I am poor but thou art rich unto all the Lord of all the Creatures I therefore humbly beg of thy mercy that thou wouldest be pleased to take from me all my sins to cure all mine infirmities to cleanse my filthiness to lighten my darkness to cloathe my nakedness with the Robe of thy Righteousness that I may with reverence and faith and holy intention receive thy blessed body and blood in the mysterious Sacrament that it may be unto life and pleasantness and holy nourishment and that I may be firmly and indesolutely united to thy mystical body and may at last see clearly and without vail thy face in glory everlasting who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen The Second I Adore and bless thy glorious Majesty O blessed Jesu for this great dignation and vouchsafing to me that art pleased for all the infinite multitudes of my sins and innumerable violating of thy holy Laws still to give thy self unto me to convey health and grace and life and hopes of glory in the blessed Sacrament I adore thee O most Righteous Redeemer that thou art pleased under the visible signs of Bread and Wine to convey unto our souls thy holy body and blood and all the benefits of thy bitter Passion O my God I am not worthy thou shouldest come under my roof but let thy holy Spirit with his purities prepare for thee a lodging in my soul. Thou hast knocked often O blessed Jesu at the door of my heart and wouldest willingly have entred behold O Lord my heart is willing ready to receive thee cast out of it all worldly desires all lust and carnal appetites and then enter and there love to inhabit that the Devil may never return to a place that is swept and garnished to fill me full of iniquity O thou lover of souls grant that this holy Sacrament may be light to my eyes a guide to my understanding and joy to my soul that by its strength I may subdue and mortifie the whole body of sin in me that it may produce in me fulness of wisdom and constancy of faith perfection accomplishment of all the Righteous Commandments and such blessed union with thee that I never more live unto my self or to the world but to thee only and by the refreshment of an holy hope I may be lead through the paths of a good life and persevering piety to the communion and possession of thy Kingdom O blessed Jesu who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen A Prayer after the Receiving of the Sacramental Bread I Give hearty thanks unto thee Almighty God that thou hast not rejected me from thy holy Table but hast refreshed my soul with the salutary refection of the body thy dear Son Jesus Christ. Lord if I had lived innocently and had kept all thy Commandments I could have not expected so transcendent a mercy but since I have lived in all manner of sin and multiplied provocations against thy Divine Majesty thy mercy is so glorious and infinite that I am amazed at the consideration of its Immensity Go on O my dear God to finish so blessed a Redemption and now that thou hast begun to celebrate a Marriage and a holy Union between thy self and my soul let me never throw off the Wedding-garment or stain it with pollution of deadly sin nor seek after other Lovers but let me for ever and ever be united unto thee being transformed into thy will in this life and to the likeness of thy glories in the life to come who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen After the Receiving of the Cup. O Just and dear God who out of the unmeasurable Abysses of wisdom and mercy hast redeemed us and offerest life and grace and salvation to us by the real exhibition of thy Son Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of his death upon the Altar of the Cross and by commemoration of the bitter Agonies in the holy Sacrament grant that that great and venerable Sacrifice which we now commemorate sacramentally may procure of thee for thy whole Church mercy and peace and great assistance in all trials deliverance from all heresies schisms sacriledge and persecucutions to all sick people health and salvation redemption from captivity competency of living to the indigent and necessitous comfort to the afflicted relief to the oppressed repentance to all sinners softness of spirit and a tender conscience to the obstinate conversion to the Jews Turk and remedy to all that are in trouble or adversity and grant to us O Lord that this Sacrament and Sacrifice of commemoration by vertue of that painful and proper Sacrifice upon the Cross may obtain for me and for us all who have communicated this day pardon and peace and
that we may derive from thee by this mystery grace to expel our sins to mortifie all our lusts to exterminate all concupiscence to crucifie all inordinate irregularities to produce in us humility and chastity and obedience and meekness of spirit and charity and let us not be harmed by the violence invasions of all our ghostly enemies and temporal disadvantages and give us grace and favour that we may not die in the commission of a sin without repentance nor without receiving the blessed Sacrament but that we may so live and die that we may at last rest in thy bosom and be embraced with the comprehensions of thy eternal Charity who livest and reignest ever one God world without end Amen Prayers preparatory to Death A Prayer for a Blessed Ending to be said in time of Health or Sickness O Blessed Jesu fountain of eternal Mercy the life of the soul and glorious Conquerour over Death and Sin I humbly beseech thee to give me grace so to spend this transitory life in vertue and holy exercises that when the day of my death shall come in the midst of all my pains I may feel the sweet refreshings of thy holy Spirit comforting my soul sustaining my infirmities and relieving all my spiritual necessities and grant that in the unity of the holy Catholick Church and in the integrity of Christian Faith with confidence and hope of thy mercy in great love towards thee in peace towards my neighbours and in charity with all the world I may through thy grace depart hence out of this vail of misery and go into that glorious Country where thou hast purchased an inheritance for us with the price of thy most precious blood and reignest in it gloriously in the unity of thy Father and ours of thy Holy Spirit and our ghostly Comforter ever one God world without end Amen All blessing and praise and honour be unto thee O blessed Redeemer and to thee I the banished and miserable Son of Adam do call for mercy and defence in this needful time of trouble to thee I sigh and cry in the valley of tears O dearest Advocate turn those thy merciful eyes towards me and shew me thy glorious face in thy heavenly Kingdom where no tears or sighing or fears or sadness can approach Amen sweetest Jesu Amen A Prayer to be said in the beginning of Sickness O Lord my God who chastisest every one whom thou receivest and with thy fatherly correction smitest those whom thou consignest to the inheritance of Sons write my soul in the book of life and number me amongst thy chosen children whom thou hast smitten with the Rod of Sickness and by thy chastisements hast brought me into the lot of the Righteous Thou O blessed Jesus who art a helper in the needful time of trouble lay no more upon me than thou shalt enable me to bear and let thy gentle corrections in this life prevent the unsupportable stripes of thy vengeance in the life to come Smite me now that thou mayest spare me to all eternity and yet O blessed High Priest who art touched with a sense of our infirmities smite me friendly and reprove me with such a tenderness as thou bearest unto thy children to whom thou conveyest supplicatory comforts greaten not the pains of thy chastisements and in due time restore me to health and to thy solemn Assemblies again and to the joy of thy countenance Give me patience and humility and the grace of Repentance and an absolute dereliction of my self and resignation to thy pleasure and providence with a power to do thy Will in all things and then do what thou pleasest with me in health or sickness in life or death let me feel thy comforts refreshing my soul and let thy grace pardon all my sins grant this O heavenly Father for thy dear Sons sake my blessed Saviour and Redeemer Amen A Prayer for a sick person in danger of Death O Lord Jesus Christ our health and our salvation our life our hope and our resurrection from the dead I resign my self up to thy holy will and pleasure either to life that I may live longer to thy service and my amendment or to death to the perpetual enjoyment of thy presence and of thy glory into thy hands I commend my spirit for I know O Lord that nothing can perish which is commited to thy mercy I believe help thou my unbelief I believe O Lord that I shall receive my body again at the resurrection of the Just I relinquish all care of that only I beg of thee mercy for my soul strengthen it with thy grace against all temptation let thy loving kindness defend it as with a shield against all violence and hostile assaults of Satan let the same mercy be my guard and defence which protected thy Martyrs crowning them with victory in the midst of flames horrid torments and most cruel deaths There is no help in me O Lord I cannot by my own strength or power give a minutes rest to my wearied body but my trust is in thy mercies and I call to mind to my unspeakable comfort that thou wert hungry and thirsty and wearied and whipt and crowned with thorns and mocked and crucified for me O let that mercy of thine which made thee suffer so much pardon me and save me let thy merits answer for my impieties let thy Righteousness cover my sins thy blood wash away my stains and thy comforts refresh my soul as my body grows weaker let thy grace be stronger let not my faith doubt nor my hope tremble nor my charity grow cold nor my soul be afrighted with the terrours of death but let the light of thy countenance enlighten mine eyes that I sleep not in death eternal and when my tongue fails let thy Spirit teach my heart with strong crying and groans that are unutterable O let not the enemy do me any violence but let thy holy mercies and thy Angels repel and defeat his malice and find that my soul may by thy strength triumph in the joys of eternity in the fruition of thee my life my joy my hope my exceeding great reward my Lord and and my Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen A Prayer for a dying person in or near the Agonies of Death MOst merciful and blessed Saviour have mercy upon the soul of this servant remember not his ignorance nor the sins of his youth nor age but according to thy great mercies remember him in the mercies and glories of thy Kingdom Thou O Lord hast opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers O let the everlasting gates be opened and receive his soul let the Angels who rejoyce at the conversion of a sinner triumph and be exalted in his deliverance and salvation Make him partaker of the benefits of thy holy Incarnation Life and Sanctity Passion and Death Resurrection and Ascension and all the Prayers of the Church that the Joy of the Elect and the Fruits of the blessed Communion of the
my mind that I may know thee and let me not be barren or unfruitful in that knowledge Lord work in my heart a true faith a purifying hope and an unfeigned love towards thee Give me a full trust in thee zeal for thee reverence in all things that relate to thee Make me fearfull to offend thee thankful for thy mercies humble under thy corrections devout in thy service sorrowful for my sins grant that in all things I may behave my self so as befits a creature to his Creator a servant to his Lord enable me likewise to perform that duty I owe to my self Give me that meekness humility and contentedness whereby I may alwaies possess my soul in patience and thankfulness Make me diligent in all my duties watchful in all temptations perfect pure and temperate and so moderate in all my most lawful enjoyments that they never may become a snare to me Make me also O Lord to be so affected towards my neighbour that I never transgress that Royal Law of thine of loving him as my self Grant me exactly to perform to all a part of Justice yielding to all whatsoever by any kind of right is their due Give me such bowels of mercy and compassion that I may never fail to do all acts of charity to all men whether friends or enemies according to thy command and example Finally I beseech thee O Lord to sanctifie me within and without that my whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all honour and glory for ever Amen Intercession O Blessed Lord whose mercy is over all thy works I beseech thee to have mercy upon all men and grant that the precious Ransom which was paid by thy Son for all may be effectual for the saving of all Give thy enlightening grace to those that are in darkness and thy converting grace to those that are in sin Look with thy tenderest compassion upon the Universal Church O be favourable and gracious unto Sion build thou the walls of Jerusalem unite all those that profess thy Name to thee by purity and holiness and to each other by brotherly kindness Have mercy on this desolate Church and sinful Nation Thou movedst the Land and divided it heal the sores thereof for it shaketh make us so truly to repent of those sins which have provoked thy Judgments that thou also mayest turn and repent and leave a blessing behind thee Bless those whom thou hast appointed our Governours whether in Church or State so rule their hearts and strengthen their hands that they may want neither will nor power to punish wickedness and vice and to maintain God's true Religion and Verity Have pity O Lord on all that are in affliction be a Father to the Fatherless and plead the Cause of the Widow comfort the feeble minded support the weak relieve the needy defend the oppressed and administer to every one according to their several necessities Let thy blessing rest upon all that are near and dear unto me and grant them whatsoever is needful and necessary both for their souls and for their bodies here name thy dearest Relations Reward all those that have done me or them good pardon all those that have done or wish us evil work in me and them all that good which may make us acceptable in thy sight Jesus Christ. Amen For Preservation O Merciful God by whose bounty and love it is that I have this day added to my life I beseech thee so to guide me in it by thy grace that I may do nothing which may dishonour thee or wound my own soul but that I may diligently apply my own soul to do all such good works as thou hast prepared for me And Lord I beseech thee give thy Angels charge over me to keep me in all my waies that no evil happen unto nor any plague come nigh my dwelling but that I and mine may be safe under thy protection through Jesus Christ my Lord and Saviour Amen O Lord pardon the wandrings and coldness of these Petitions and deal with me not according either to my prayers or deserts but according to my needs and thine own rich mercy in Jesus Christ in whose blessed Name and words I conclude these my imperfect prayers saying Our Father c. Prayers for Night O Holy blessed and glorious Trinity Three Persons and One God have mercy upon me a miserable sinner Lord I know not what to pray for as I ought O let thy holy Spirit help mine infirmities and enable me to offer up a spiritual Sacrifice acceptable unto thee by Jesus Christ. A Confession O Most holy Lord God who art of purer eyes than to behold iniquity how shall I an abominable wretch appear before thee who am nothing but pollution I am defiled in my very nature have a backwardness to all good and a readiness to all evil but I have defiled my self much worse by my own actual sins and wicked customs I have transgressed my duty to thee my neighbour and my self and that both in thought word and deed by doing those things thou hast expresly forbidden and neglecting to do those things thou hast commanded me and this not onely through ignorance and frailty but knowingly and wilfully against the motion of thy Spirit and the checks of mine own conscience to the contrary and to make all these out of measure sinful I have gone on in a daily course of repeating these provocations against thee notwithstanding all thy calls to and my own purposes and endeavours of amendment yea this very day I have not ceased to add new sins to my former guilt here name the particulars and now O Lord what shall I say or how shall I open my mouth seeing I have done these things I know that the wages of sin is death but O thou who willest not the death of a sinner have mercy upon me work in me I beseech thee a sincere contrition and perfect hatred of all my sins let me daily confess them but yet not as duly renew them and grant O Lord that from this instant I may give a bill of divorce to all my most beloved lusts and then be thou pleased to marry me to thy self in Truth in Righteousness and true Holiness all the daies of my life and for all my sins past O Lord receive a Reconciliation accept of that Ransom thy blessed Son hath paid for me and for his sake whom thou hast set forth as a propitiation pardon all my offences and receive me to thy favour and when thou hast thus spoken peace to my soul Lord keep me that I turn not any more to folly but stablish me with thy grace that no temptation of the World the Devil or my own Flesh may ever draw me to offend thee that being made free from sin and becoming a Servant unto God I may have my fruit unto holiness and in the
happiness in thy heavenly Kingdom In the mean time O Lord whilst it is thy blessed will and pleasure that I may continue to spend and end that small number and remnant of my daies that I may apply my heart to wisdom and as thou dost add daies to my life so I beseech thee to add repentance and amendment to my sinful daies that as I grow in years I may grow in grace and favour with thee and all thy people and to this end give unto me a supply of all those graces which thou knowest to be wanting in me and necessary for me with an increase of all those good gifts wherewith thou hast already endowed me that so I may be the better enabled to lead such a godly life and an honest conversation as that thy Name may thereby be glorified others may take good example by me and my soul may cheerfully feed on the peace of a good conscience and be more replenished with the Joy of the Holy Ghost And here O Lord according to my bounden duty I give the most humble and hearty thanks for all those blessings which of thy goodness thou hast bestowed upon me and namely for that thou hast of thy free grace and love according to thine eternal purpose elected me before the foundation of the world was laid unto salvation in Jesus Christ For that thou hast created me in thine own Image and hast begun to restore that in me which was lost in our First Parents For that thou hast effectually called me by the working of thy Holy Spirit in the Preaching of the Gospel and the Receiving of thy Sacrament to the knowledge of thy saving grace and obedience to thy blessed Will For that thou hast bought and redeemed me with the blood of thy only begotten Son from the torment of Hell and thraldom of Satan For that thou hast by Faith in Christ freely justified me who am by nature the child of wrath For that thou hast in good measure justified me by thy Holy Spirit and given me so large a time to repent together with the means of Repentance I thank thee likewise good Lord for my life health wealth liberty food rayment peace prosperity and plenty and for that thou hast preserved me this night from all perils and dangers of soul and body and hast brought me safe to the beginning of this day and as thou hast now awakened my body from sleep so I beseech thee to awaken my body from sin and carnal security and as thou hast caused the light of the day to shine in our bodily eyes so good Lord cause the light of thy Word and Holy Spirit to illuminate my understanding and give me grace as one of thy children of light to walk in all holy obedience before thy face this day and all the daies and time of my whole life and that I may endeavour to keep faith and a good conscience towards God and towards all men in all my thoughts words and dealings and so good Lord bless all studies and actions which I shall take in hand this day as that they may tend to thy glory the good of others and the comfort of my own soul and conscience in that day when I shall make my final request unto thee for them O my God keep thy servant that I do not evil unto any man this day and let it be thy blessed will not to suffer the Devil nor his wicked Angels nor any of his evil members or my malicious enemies to have any power to do me any hurt or harm this day but let the eyes of thy holy providence watch over me for good and not for evil and command thy holy Angels to pitch their tents round about me for my defence and safety in my going out and my coming in as thou hast promised they should do about them that fear thy Name for into thy hands O Father I do here commend my soul and body my actions and all that ever I have to be guided and protected by thee being assured that whatsoever thou takest into thy custody cannot suffer or take any hurt or harm and if I at any time this day shall through frailty forget thee yet Lord I beseech thee do thou in mercy remember me And I pray not alone for my self unto thee O Father but I beseech thee also be merciful unto thy whole Church and chosen people wheresoever they live upon the face of the whole Earth defend them from the rage and tyranny of the Devil the World and Antichrist give thy Gospel a free and a joyful passage through the world for the conversion of those who belong to thine Election and Kingdom Bless the Church and Kingdoms wherein we live with the continuance of peace and true Religion and Justice Defend our gracious King Charles from all his enemies and grant him a long life in health and all happiness to raign over us Bless our gracious Queen Katherine James Duke of York and all the rest of the Royal Family increase in them all heroical and spiritual graces which may make them fit for those places for which thou ordainedst them direct all the Nobility Bishops and Magistrates of this Kingdom and Commonwealth govern thou them that they may govern the Commons in true Religion Justice Obedience and Tranquility Be merciful unto all the people that fear thee and call upon thy Name and comfort as many among them as lie sick or are comfortless in body or mind especially be favourable to all such as suffer any trouble or persecution for the testimony of the Truth and holy Gospel and give them a gracious deliverance out of all their troubles which way it shall seem best to thy wisdom for the glory of thy Name the farther inlarging of the Truth and the more ample increase of their comfort and consolation Hasten thy coming O blessed Saviour and end these sinful daies and give me grace that like a wise Virgin I may be prepared with Oil in my Lamp to meet thee the sweetest Bridegroom of my soul at thy coming whether it be by the day of death or the day of judgment and then Lord Jesus come quickly even Lord Jesus come when thou wilt these and all other graces which thou knowest to be needful and necessary both for my soul and my body this day and for ever I humbly beg and crave at thy hands O Father giving thee thy praise and glory in that absolute form of prayer which Christ himself hath taught me to say unto thee Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name c. Another Shorter Morning Prayer O Most gracious God and merciful Father I thine unworthy servant do acknowledge that as I have been born in sin so I have lived in iniquity and broken every one of thy commandments in thought word and deed following the desires of my own will and lusts of my flesh not caring to be governed by thy holy Word and Spirit therefore I have
justly deserved all shame and misery in this life and everlasting condemnation in Hell fire if that thou shouldest but deal with me according to thy Justice and my deserts Wherefore O heavenly Father I humbly beseech thee for thy Son Jesus Christ his sake and for the merits of that bloody death and passion which I believe he hath suffered for me that thou wouldest pardon and forgive me all my sins and deliver me from the Hell and vengeance which is due unto me for them and send thy holy Spirit into my heart which may assure me that thou art my Father and that I am thy child and that thou lovest me with an unchangeable love and let thy good Spirit lead me into all truth and crucifie in me more and more carnal lusts that my sin may more and more die in me and that I may serve thee in Righteousness and true Holiness all the daies of my life and when this mortal life is ended I may through thy mercy in Christ be made partaker of thine everlasting glory in thy heavenly Kingdom And here O Lord from the bottom of my heart I humbly thank thee for all thy blessings bestowed upon my soul and body for electing me in thy Love for redeeming me by thy Son sanctifying me by thy Spirit and preserving me from my youth up until this present day and hour by thy gracious providence I thank thee more especially for that thou hast defended me this night past from all danger and hast brought me safe to the beginning of this day and now good Lord I beseech thee keep me this day from all peril and danger and from all evil that may hurt me and from falling into all sin that should offend thee set thy fear before mine eyes and let thy holy Spirit so rule my heart that all that I shall think do or speak this day may tend to thy glory the good of others and the peace of my own conscience and to this end I commend my self and all my waies and actions together with all that do belong unto me unto thy gracious protection this day praying thee to keep both thine and me from all evil and to give a blessing to all our honest labours and endeavours defend thy whole Church from the tyranny of this world and of Antichrist preserve our gracious King from all conspiracy and treason grant him a long reign in health and happiness over us Bless our gracious Queen Katherine James Duke of York and all the rest of the Royal Family endue them with thy grace and defend them from all evil Bless all our Ministers and Magistrates with all those graces and gifts which thou knowest necessary for their places Be favourable to all those that fear thee and call upon thy Name and tremble at thy judgments Comfort all those that are sick or any way comfortless O Lord keep me in a continual readiness by faith and repentance for my last end that whether I live or die I may be found thine own to thine eternal glory and my everlasting salvation through Jesus Christ my only Saviour in whose blessed Name I beg these mercies at thy hands and give unto thee thy praise and glory in that prayer which he hath sanctified with his own lips saying Our Father c. A Prayer for the Evening O most gracious and loving Father who art about my bed and knowest my lying down and my rising up and art near unto all that call upon thee in Truth and sincerity I a wretched sinner do humbly beseech thee to look upon me with the eyes of mercy and not to behold me as I am in my self for then thou shalt see but an unclean and defiled creature conceived in sin and living in iniquity so that I am ashamed to lift up my eyes unto thee knowing how grievously I have sinned against Heaven and before thee for O Lord I have transgressed all thy Commandments and Righteous Laws not through negligence and infirmity but oftentimes through wilful presumption contrary to my knowledge and the motions of thy holy Spirit reclaiming me from them so that I have wounded my conscience and grieved thy holy Spirit by whom thou hast sealed me to the day of Redemption Thou hast consecrated my soul and body to be the Temple of the Holy Ghost I wretched sinner have defiled both with all manner of pollution and uncleanness mine eyes in taking pleasure to behold vanities that I am ashamed to lift up my eyes unto thee mine ears in hearing impure and unclean speeches my tongue in evil speaking my hands are so full of impurity that I am ashamed to lift them up unto thee and my feet have carried me after mine own waies my understanding and reasonings which are so quick in all earthly matters are only blind and stupid when I come to meditate or discourse of spiritual and heavenly things my memory which should be a treasury of all goodness is not so apt to remember any thing as those things that are vile and vain yea Lord by woful experience I find that naturally all the imaginations of the thoughts of my heart are only evil altogether and continually for these my sins are more in number than the hairs of my head and they have grown over me like a loathsom leprosie from the crown of my head to the soal of my feet there remains no part which they have not infected they make me seem vile in mine own eyes how much more abominable must I appear in thy sight the custom of sinning hath almost taken away the conscience of sin and pull'd upon me such dulness of sense and hardness of heart that thy judgments denounced against my sins by the faithful Preachers of thy Word do not terrifie me to return unto thee with unfeigned repentance and if thou Lord shouldest but deal with me according to thy Justice and my deserts I should utterly be confounded and condemned but seeing that of thine own mercy thou hast spared me so long and still waitest for my repentance I humbly beseech thee for the blood death and passions sake which Jesus Christ hath suffered for me that thou wouldest pardon and forgive me all my sins and mine offences and open unto me that ever-streaming fountain of the blood of Christ which thou hast promised to open under the New Testament to the penitent of the house of David that all my sins and uncleanness may be so bathed in his blood buried in his death and hid in his wounds that they never more be seen to shame me in this life nor to condemn me in the world to come before the judgment seat of God And for as much O Lord as thou knowest that it is not in man to turn his own heart unless thou first give him grace to convert And seeing it is as easie with thee to make me righteous and holy as to suffer me to be such O my God give me grace to do what thou hast commanded then
command what thou wilt and thou shalt find me willing to do what thou commandest and to observe thy blessed Will in all things to this end give unto me thy Holy Spirit which thou hast promised to give to the worlds end unto all thine elect people and let the same Holy Spirit purge my heart from the dross of my natural corruption heal my soul and body that they may become the Temple of the Holy Ghost to serve thee in Righteousness and true Holiness all the daies of my life that when by the direction and assistance of thy Holy Spirit I shall finish my course in this short and transitory life I may cheerfully leave this world and resign my soul into thy fatherly hands in assured confidence of enjoying everlasting life with thee in thy heavenly Kingdom which thou hast prepared for thine Elect Saints who love the Lord Jesus and expect his appearing In the mean while O Father I beseech thee let thy Holy Spirit work in me such a serious repentance as that I may with tears lament my sins past with grief of heart be humbled for my sins present and with all my endeavours resist the like filthy sins for the time to come and let the same Holy Spirit keep me in the Unity of the Church lead me in the Truth of thy Word and preserve me that I may never swerve from the same to Popery or any other error or false Worship and let thy Spirit open mine eyes more and more to see the wondrous things of thy Law and open my lips that my mouth may set forth thy praise increase in me those good gifts with which thou hast already endowed me of thy mercy and give unto me a penitent spirit and a chaste heart a contented mind pure affections a wise behaviour and all other graces which thou seest necessary for me to govern my heart in thy fear and to guide all my life in thy favour that whether I live or die I may live and die unto thee who art my God and my Redeemer And here O Lord according as I am bound I render unto thee from the Altar of my humblest heart all possible thanks and praise for all those blessings and benefits which graciously and plentifully thou hast bestowed upon my soul and body for this life and that which is to come namely for my Election Creation Redemption Justification Sanctification and Preservation from my childhood until this present day and hour and for the firm hope which thou hast given me of my Glorification Likewise for my Life Liberty Food and Rayment a competent estate for the maintenance of this present life and prosperity more especially for that thou hast defended me this day now past from all peril and dangers both of body and soul furnishing me with all necessary good things that I stand in need of and as thou hast ordained the day for man to travel in and the night for him to take his rest so I beseech thee to sanctifie unto me this nights rest and sleep that I may be the better disposed to serve thee in all honesty and godliness and that I may enjoy the same as thy sweet blessing and benefit that so dull and wearied a body of mine being refreshed with moderate rest and sleep I may be the better enabled to work before thee doing all such good works as thou hast provided for me and when it shall please thee by thy divine providence to awaken me the next morning do thou O Lord who art the keeper of Israel who never slumberest nor sleepest watch over me in thy holy providence to protect me from all dangers so that neither the evil Angels of Satan nor any wicked enemy may have any power to do me any harm or evil and to this end give a charge unto thy holy Angels that they at thy appointment may pitch their tents round about me for my defence and safety as thou hast promised they should do about them that fear thy Name and knowing that thy Name is a strong Tower of defence unto all those that trust therein I here recommend my self and all that belongs unto me unto thy holy protection and custody if it be thy blessed will to call for me in my sleep O Lord for Christ his sake have mercy upon me and receive my soul unto thy heavenly Kingdom and if it be thy blessed pleasure to add more daies to my life add more amendment unto my daies and wean my mind from the love of the world and the vanity thereof and cause me more and more to settle my conversation on Heaven and heavenly things and perfect daily in me that good work which thou hast begun to the glory of thy Name and the salvation of my sinful soul. O Lord I beseech thee likewise save and defend from all evil and danger thy whole Church our gracious King Charles and grant him a long and prosperous Raign over us Bless our gracious Queen Katherine James Duke of York and all the Royal Family endue them with thy grace and defend them from all evil Bless the Nobility Magistrates and Ministers of these Churches and Kingdoms each of them with those graces and benefits which are expedient for their places and callings and be thou O Lord a comfort and a consolation to all thy people whom thou hast thought meet to visit with any kind of sickness cross or poverty or calamity Hasten O Father the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ make me ever mindful of my last end and of the reckoning that I am to make unto thee therein and in the mean while carefully so to follow Christ in the generation during this life as that with Christ I may have a portion in the resurrection of Christ when this mortal life is ended These graces and all other blessings which thou O Father knowest to be required and necessary for me I humbly beg and crave at thy hands in the Name and Mediation of Jesus Christ thy Son and in that form of Prayer which he himself hath taught me to say Our Father which art in Heaven c. Another Short Evening Prayer O Eternal God and heavenly Father if I were not taught and assured by the promises of thy Gospel and the example of Peter Mary Magdalen the Publican the Prodigal Child and many other penitent sinners that thou art so full of compassion and so ready to forgive the greatest sinners who are heaviest laden with sin at what time soever they return unto thee with penitent hearts lamenting their sins and imploring thy grace I should despair for my own sins and be utterly discouraged from presuming to come into thy presence considering the hardness of my heart and the unruliness of my affection and the uncleanness of my conversation by means whereof I have transgressed all thy holy Laws and Commandments and deserved thy Curse which might cause my body to be smitten with some fearful disease my soul to languish with the
death of sin my good name to be traduced with some scandalous reproaches and make my self liable to all manner of crosses and casualties And I confess Lord that thy mercy is the cause I have not been long ago consumed and confounded But O my God as thy mercy only stayed thy judgments from falling upon me hitherto so I humbly beseech thee in the bowels of thy mercy in Jesus Christ in whom only thou art well pleased that thou wilt not deal with me according to my deserts but that thou wouldest freely and fully remit unto me all my sins and my transgressions and that thou wouldest wash them clean from me with the vertue of that precious blood which thy Son Jesus Christ hath shed for me for he alone is my Physician and his blood only is the medicine that can heal my sickness and is the true brazen Serpent that can cure that poison wherewith the fiery serpents of my sins have stung and poisoned my sick and wounded soul and give me I beseech thee thine holy Spirit which may assure me of mine Adoption and that may confirm my Faith increase my Repentance inlighten my Understanding purifie my Heart and rectifie my Will and Affection and so sanctifie me throughout that my whole Body and Soul and Spirit may be kept unblamable until the glorious coming of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. And now O Lord I give unto thee most humble and hearty thanks and praise for that thou hast this day preserved me from all harm and dangers notwithstanding all my sins and evil deserts and I beseech thee likewise to defend me this night from the roaring Lion which night and day seeketh to devour me Watch thou O Lord over me this night to keep me from his temptations and tyranny and let thy mercy shield me from his unspeakable rage and malice and to this end I commit my self into thy hands and almighty protection beseeching thee O my Lord and my God not to suffer Satan or any of his evil members to have power to do me any hurt or harm this night and grant good Lord that whether I sleep or wake live or die I may sleep wake live or die unto thee and to the glory of thy Name and the salvation of my soul. Lord bless and defend all thy chosen people every where Grant our gracious Soveraign long life and a happy Raign over us Bless our gracious Queen Katherine James Duke of York and all the Royal Family together with all our Magistrates and Ministers comfort them who are in misery need or sickness or under any kind of Cross or Calamity give me grace to be one of those wise Virgins which may have my heart prepared like a Lamp furnished with the Oil of Faith and Light of good works to meet the Lord Jesus the sweet Bridegroom of my soul at his second and sudden coming in glory grant this good Father for Jesus Christ his sake my only Saviour Redeedeemer and Mediator in whose blessed Name and in whose own words I call upon thee as he hath taught me Our Father which art in Heaven c. A Morning Prayer for a Family O Lord our God and heavenly Father who art the only Creator of Heaven and of Earth and all therein contained we confess that we are unworthy to appear in thy sight and presence considering our manifold sins and offences which we have committed against Heaven and before thee and how that we have been born in sin and do daily break thy holy Laws and Commandments contrary to our knowledge and consciences albeit we know thou art our Creator who hast made us our Redeemer who hast bought us with the blood of thy only begotten Son and our Comforter who bestowest upon us all the good and holy graces which we enjoy in our souls and in our bodies and if thou shouldest but deal with us as our wickedness and unthankfulness have deserved what other thing might we O Lord expect from thee but shame and confusion in this life and in the world to come wrath and everlasting condemnation yet O Lord in the obedience of thy Commandments and in the confidence which we have in thy unspeakable and endless mercy in thy Son and our Saviour Jesus Christ the Righteous we thy poor servants appealing from thy Throne of Justice to thy Throne of Crace whose mercy reigneth to pardon abounding sin do from the bottom of our hearts most humbly beseech thee to remit and forgive unto us all our sins and our offences and misdeeds that by the vertue of the precious blood of Jesus Christ thy innocent Lamb which he so abundantly shed upon the Cross to take away the sins of the world all our sins both original and actual may be so cleansed and washed from us that they may never be laid to our charge nor ever have power to rise up in judgment against us and we beseech thee good Father for Christ his death and passion sake that thou wilt not suffer to fall upon us that fearful curse and vengeance which thy Law hath threatned and our sins have justly deserved And for as much O Lord as we are taught by thy Word that no Idolaters Adulterers covetous men contentious persons drunkards gluttons and such inordinate livers shall inherit the Kingdom of God pour the grace of thy Holy Spirit into our hearts whereby we may see the filthiness of our sins and abhor them and may be more and more stirred up to live in newness of life and love of thy Majesty so we may daily increase in the obedience of thy words and in conscionable care of keeping thy Commandments And now O Lord I render unto thee most hearty thanks for that thou hast elected redeemed called justified us in good measure in this life and given us an assured hope that thou wilt glorifie us in thy heavenly Kingdom when this mortal life is ended Likewise we thank thee for our life health wealth liberty prosperity and peace especially O Lord for the continuance of thy holy Gospel amongst us and for sparing us so long and granting us so gracious a time of repentance Also we praise thee for all other thy mercies bestowed upon us more especially for preserving us this night past and from all dangers that might have befallen our souls or bodies and seeing thou hast now brought us safe to the beginning of this day we beseech thee protect and direct us in the same Bless and defend us in our going out and in our coming in this day and ever more shield us O Lord from the temptations of the Devil and grant us the custody of thy holy Angels to defend and direct us in all our waies and to this end we recommend our selves and all those that belong unto us and are abroad from us unto thy hands and almighty tuition Lord defend them from all evil prosper them with all graces and fill them with thy goodness Preserve us likewise this day from falling
despairing a sight of thy mercies and do thou O Lord for every one abundantly above what they can ask or or think Forgive my enemies persecutors and slanderers and turn their hearts Pour down thy blessings upon all my friends and benefactors all who have commended themselves to my prayers here thou mayest name particular persons and grant O most merciful Father that through this blood of the Cross we may be presented pure and unblameable and unreprovable in thy sight that so we may be admitted into that place of purity where no unclean thing can enter there to sing all eternal praises to Father Son and Holy Ghost forever Amen A Prayer in time of Affliction O Just and holy Lord who with rebukes dost chasten man for sin I desire unfeignedly to humble my self under thy mighty hand which now lies heavy upon me I heartily acknowledge O Lord that all I do all I can suffer is but the due reward of my deeds therefore in thy severest inflictions I must still say Righteous art thou O Lord righteous are thy Judgments but O Lord I beseech thee in Judgment remember mercy although my sins have enforced thee to strike yet consider my weakness and let not my stripes be more heavy or more lasting than thou seest proportionable for my soul Correct me but with the chastisement of a Father not with the wounds of an enemy and though thou take not off thy Rod yet take away thine anger Lord do not abhor my soul and cast not away thy servant in displeasure but pardon my sins I beseech thee and if yet in thy fatherly wisdom thou seest fit to prolong thy corrections thy blessed will be done I cast my self O Lord at thy feet do with me what thou pleasest try my as silver is tryed so that thou bring me out purified And Lord make me even my flesh also to subscribe to this Resignation that there be nothing in me that may rebel against thy hand but that I may suppress all repining thoughts and may cheerfully drink of this Cup how bitter soever thou art pleased to make it Lord let it prove medicinal and cure all the diseases of my soul that it may bring forth in me the peaceable fruit of Righteousness that so these light afflictions which are but for a moment may work for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory through Jesus Christ. Amen A Thanksgiving for Deliverance O Blessed Lord who art gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repentest of the evil I thankfully acknowledge before thee that thou hast not dealt with me after my sins nor rewarded me according to my iniquities my Rebellions O Lord deserve to be scourged with Scorpions and thou hast corrected them only with a fatherly Rod neither hast thou suffered me to lye long under that but hast given me a timely and gracious issue out of my late distresses O Lord I will be glad and rejoyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble and hast known my soul in adversity Thou hast smitten and thou hast healed me O let these various methods have their proper effects upon my soul that I who have felt the smart of thy chastisements may stand in awe and sin not and that I who have likewise tasted the sweet refreshings of thy mercy may have my heart ravished with it and knit to thee in the firmest bands of love and that by both I may be preserved in a constant entire obedience to thee all my daies through Jesus Christ. Amen A Prayer for a Sick Person O Merciful and righteous Lord the God of health and of sickness of life and of death I most unfeignedly acknowledge that my great abuse of those many daies of strength and welfare that thou hast afforded me hath most justly deserved thy present visitation I desire O Lord humbly to accept of the punishment of the Lord for my iniquity and to bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him And O thou merciful Father who designest not the ruine but the amendment of those whom thou scourgest I beseech thee by thy grace so to sanctifie this correction of thine to me that this sickness of my body may be a means of health to my soul. Make me diligent to search my heart and do thou O Lord discover every cursed thing how close soever concealed there that by the removal thereof I may make way for the removal of this punishment Heal my soul O Lord which hath sinned against thee and then if it be thy blessed will heal my body also Restore the voice of joy and health into my dwelling that I may live to praise thee and to bring forth fruit of Repentance but if in thy wisdom thou hast otherwise disposed if thou hast determined that this sickness shall be unto death I beseech thee to fit and prepare me for it Give me that sincere and earnest Repentance to which thou hast promised mercy and pardon Wean my heart from the world and its fading vanities and make me to gasp and pant after those more excellent and durable Joyes which are at thy right hand forever Lord lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon me and in all the pains of my body in all the agonies of my spirit let thy comforts refresh my soul and enable me patiently to wait till my change come and grant O Lord that when my earthly Tabernacle is dissolved I may have a building not made with hands eternal in the Heavens and that for his sake who by his precious blood hath purchased it for me even Jesus Christ. Amen A Thanksgiving for Recovery O Most gracious Lord the God of the spirits of all flesh in whose hand my time is I praise and magnifie thee that thou hast in love to my soul delivered me from the pit of destruction and restored me to health again It is of thy mercy alone O Lord that thou hast preserved my life from destruction thou hast chastened and corrected me but thou hast not given me over unto death O let this life which thou hast thus graciously spared be wholly consecrated unto thee Behold O Lord I am by thy mercy made whole O make me strictly careful to sin no more lest a worse thing come unto me Let not this reprieve thou hast now given me make me secure as thinking my Lord delayeth his coming but grant me I beseech thee to make a right use of this long-suffering of thine and so to imploy every minute of that time thou hast allowed me that when thou shalt appear I may have confidence and not be ashamed before thee at thy coming Lord I have found by this approach towards death how dreadful a thing it is to be taken unprepared O let it be a perpetual admonition to me to watch for my Masters coming and when the pleasures of sin shall present themselves to entice me O make me to remember how bitter they
of thy blood to perish O Spirit of grace I have by my horrid impieties done despight unto thee yet O blessed Comforter though I have offended thee and often grieved thy Holy Spirit be thou pleased to succour and relieve me and say unto my soul I am thy salvation Mine eyes look unto thee O Lord in thee is my trust O cast not out my soul. O Lord in thee have I trusted let me never be confounded O blessed Lord who scourgest every Son whom thou receivest let me not be weary of thy correction but give me such a perfect submission to thee the Father of spirits that this chastisement may be for my profit that I may thereby be partaker of thy holiness O thou Captain of my salvation who wert made perfect by sufferings sanctifie to me all the pains of body all the terrours of mind which thou shalt permit to fall upon me Lord my sins have deserved eternal torments make me cheerfully and thankfully to bear my present pains chasten me as thou pleasest here that I may not be condemned with the world Lord the waters are come in even unto my soul O let thy Spirit move upon the waters and make them like the Pool of Bethesda that they may cure whatsoever spiritual disease thou discernest in me O Christ who first sufferedst many and grievous things and then enteredst into thy grave make me so to suffer with thee that I may also be glorified with thee O dear Jesus who humblest thy self to the death of the Cross for me let that death of thine sweeten the bitterness of mine When thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven to all Believers I believe that thou shalt come to be my Judge I pray thee therefore help thy servant whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood make me to be numbred with Saints in glory everlasting Thou art the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth in thee though he were dead yet shall he live Lord I believe help thou my unbelief My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever I desire to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is far better Lord I groan earnestly desiring to be cloathed upon with that house from Heaven I desire to put off this Tabernacle O be pleased to receive me into everlasting habitations bring my soul out of prison that I may give thanks unto thy Name Lord I am here to wrestle not only with flesh and blood but with principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness O take me from these tents of Kedar into the heavenly Jerusalem where Satan shall be utterly trodden under foot I cannot here attend one minute to thy service without distractions O take me up to stand before thy Throne where I shall serve thee day and night I am in heaviness through many tribulations O receive me into that place of rest where all tears shall be wiped away from my eyes where there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying nor pain I am here in the state of banishment and absence from the Lord. O take me where I shall for ever behold thy face and follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of glory O blessed Jesu who hast loved me and washed me from my sins in thine own blood receive my soul. Into thine hands I commend my Spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of Truth come Lord Jesus come quickly Amen A Prayer for the Morning O Most mighty and gracious God full of incomprehensible Power and Majesty whose glory the very Heaven of Heavens is not able to contain look down from Heaven upon me thy unworthy servant who here prostrate my self at the footstool of thy Throne of grace not as I am in my self but look upon me O Father through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ thy beloved Son in whom thou art well pleased for of my self I am not able to stand in thy presence or to speak with my unclean lips to so holy a God as thou art for thou knowest that in sin I was conceived and born and that I have lived ever since in iniquity so that I have broken all thy holy Laws and Commandments by sinful motions unclean thoughts evil words and wicked works omitting many of those duties of piety which thou requirest for thy service and committing many of those vices which thou under the penalty of thy displeasure hast forbidden here thou mayest confess to God thy secret sins which most burden thy conscience with the circumstances of the time place person and the manner how it is committed saying but more especially I do here with grief of heart confess unto thee for these my sins O Lord I stand guilty of thy curse with all the miseries of this life and the life to come namely everlasting torment in Hell fire when this wretched life is ended If thou shouldest deal with me according to my deserts yea Lord I confess thy goodness which endureth for ever is the cause I have not been long ago consumed and confounded but with thee O Lord there is mercy and plenteous redemption in the multitude therefore of thy mercies and confidence in Christs merits I intreat thy Divine Majesty that thou wouldest not enter into judgment with thy servant neither be extream to mark what I have hitherto done amiss for if thou dost then no flesh can be justified in thy sight nor any living stand in thy presence but be thou merciful unto me and wash away all the uncleanness of my sins in the merits of that precious blood which Jesus Christ hath shed for me and seeing that he hath born the burden of that curse which was due for my transgression O Lord deliver me from my sins and from all those Judgments which hang over my head as due unto me for them and separate them as far from thy presence as the East is from the West bury them in the burial of Christ that they may never rise up in this world to shame me nor in the world to come to condemn me And I beseech thee O Lord not only to wash away my sins with the blood of thy Immaculate Lamb but also to purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit from the dross of my natural corruptions that I may feel thy Spirit more and more killing my sins in the power and practice thereof so that I may with more freedom of mind and liberty of will serve thee the ever living God in Righteousness and true Holiness this day and give me grace that by the direction and assistance of thy Holy Spirit I may persevere to be thy faithful and unfeigned servant unto my lifes end and when this mortal life is ended I may be made partaker of immortality and everlasting
Pit I humbly also beg mercy for my Child grant a comely body and an understanding soul life and an opportunity of Baptism and thy grace from the cradle to his grave that it may increase the number of Saints in that holy fellowship of Saints and Angels where thou raignest and livest Eternal God world without end Amen Before a Journey O Lord who didst lead thy servants Abraham and Jacob thy people Israel thy servant Tobias and wise men of the East in their several Journies by thy providence by thy Ministry of Angels by a Pillar of Fire and by the guidance of a Star vouchsafe to preserve us thy servants in the way that we are now to go be O Lord a guide unto us in our preparation a shadow in the day and covering by night a rest to our weariness and a staff to our weakness a portion in adversity a protection from danger that by thy assistance we may perform our Journey safely to thy honour to our own comfort and last bring us to the everlasting Rest of our heavenly Country through him who is the way the truth and the life our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen For Afflicted persons O Lord God merciful and gracious Father whose compassion extends to all that are in misery and need that takest delight in relieving the distresses of the afflicted give refreshment to all the comfortless provide for the poor give ease to all them that are tormented with sharp pains health to the diseased liberty and redemption to the captives chearfulness of spirit to all them that are in great desolation Lord let thy Spirit confirm all them that are strong strengthen all them that are weak and speak peace to the afflicted conscience that the light of thy countenance being restored to them they may rejoyce in thy salvation and sing praises unto thy Name who hast delivered their souls from death their eyes from tears and their feet from falling grant this for the honour of thy mercy and the glory of thy Name through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer against Temptations O God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ thy Name is great thy Essence infinite thy Goodness is Eternal and thy Power hath no limit thou art the God and Father of all blessed for ever more look down in mercy and compassion from thy dwelling hear my prayers and supplications and deliver me from all temptations of the world the flesh and the Devil take not thy grace from me let me never want thy help in my need nor thy comfort in the day of my danger or calamity never try me beyond my strength nor afflict me beyond my patience nor smite me but with a fatherly Rod I have no strength of my own thou art my confidence my Rock and my strong salvation save me O God from the miseries of this world and never let me suffer the calamities of the next rescue me from the evils I have deserved and preserve me from the punishment of this world that living before thee with a clean heart and undefiled body and a sanctified spirit I may at the day of Judgment be presented pure and spotless by the blood of the Lamb that I may sing eternal Hallelujahs in heavenly places to the honour of God our Saviour who hath redeemed our souls from death our eyes from tears and our feet from falling grant this in the riches of thy mercy through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A General Confesson ALmighty God I a miserable sinner do humbly confess that I am truly sorrowful for my many and great my innumerable and intollerable crimes of which my conscience does accuse me by night and by day and by which I have provoked thy severest wrath and indignation against me I have broken all thy Righteous Laws and Commandments by word or deed by vain thoughts or sinful desires I have sinned against thee in all my Relations and capacities in all places and at all times I can neither reckon their number nor bear their burden nor suffer thine anger which I have deserved but thou O Lord God art merciful and gracious have mercy upon me pardon me for all the evil I have done judge me not for all the good I have omitted take not thy favour from me but delight thou to sanctifie and save me and work in me to will and to do of thy good pleasure all my duty which thou O Lord requirest of me that being sanctified by thy Spirit delivered from my sins I may serve thee in a religious and holy conversation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer used by His late Majesty in the time of his trouble and restraint O Most glorious Lord God Father Son and Holy Ghost I here humbly adore thy most sacred Majesty and I bless and magnifie thy Name for that thou hast been pleased so often and strangely to deliver me from the striving of my people Father forgive them who have thus risen up against me and do thou yet turn their hearts both unto thee and unto me and do thou afford me help that I being firmly established in the Throne thou hast placed me in may defend thy Church committed to my care and keep all this thine and my people in truth and peace through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer for pardon of Sin ALmighty and most merciful Father look down upon me thy unworthy servant who here prostrate my self at the footstool of thy Throne of Grace yea look upon me O Father through the mediation and in the merits of Jesus Christ in whom only thou art well pleased for of my self I am not worthy to stand before thee or to speak with my unclean lips unto thee most holy and eternal God for as in sin I was conceived and born so likewise I have broken all thy holy Laws and Commandments by my sinful motions unclean thoughts evil words and wicked works omitting my duties I ought to do and committing many vices which thou hast forbidden under pain of death of thy heavy displeasure As for my sins O Lord they are innumerable wherefore I stand here liable to all the miseries of this life and everlasting torment in that to come if thou shouldest deal with me according to my deserts I confess Lord that it is thy mercy which endureth for ever and thy compassion which never fails which is the cause I have not been long ago consumed but with thee there is mercy and plenteous redemption in the multitude therefore of thy mercies and by the merits of Jesus Christ I intreat thy Divine Majesty that thou wilt not enter into judgment with thy servant nor be extream to mark what is done amiss but be thou merciful unto me and wash away all my sins and transgressions with that precious blood that my Saviour shed for me and I beseech thee O Lord not only to wash away all my sins but also to purge my heart by thy holy Spirit from the dross
of mine hand in his eye-sight With the merciful thou shalt shew thy self merciful with an upright man thou shalt shew thy self upright vers 23 24 25. He delivereth me from mine enemies yea thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me thou hast delivered me from the violent Man Great deliverance giveth he to his King and sheweth mercy to his anointed to David and to his Seed for evermore vers 48 51. The Heavens declare the glory of God and the Firmament sheweth his handy-work 19.1 The Lord hear thee in the day of Trouble the Name of the God of Jacob defend thee 20.1 Grant thee according to thine own heart and fulfil all thy Counsel vers 4. Our Fathers trusted in thee and thou didst deliver them 22.4 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted neither hath he hid his face from him but when he cryed unto him he heard him vers 24. The Lord is my Shepherd I shall want nothing 23.1 He that hath clean hands and a pure heart who hath not lift up his Soul to vanity nor sworn deceitfully 24.4 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the Lord of his Salvation Lord I have loved the habitation of thy house and the place where thy honour dwelleth 26.8 Wait upon the Lord be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart wait I say on the Lord 27.14 I hate them that regard lying vanities but I trust in the Lord. I will be glad and rejoyce in thy mercy for thou hast considered my trouble thou hast known my Soul in adversities 31.6 7. For my life is spent with grief my strength faileth me because of my Iniquity and my bones are consumed vers 10. Blessed is he whose Transgression is forgiven and whose Sin is covered Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not Iniquity and in whose spirit is no Guile I acknowledge my Sin unto thee and mine Iniquities have I not hid I said I will confess my Transgression unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my Sin Be glad in the Lord ô ye Righteous and rejoyce and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart 32.1 2 5 11. He loveth Righteousness and Judgment the Earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. Let all the Earth fear the Lord let all the Inhabitants of the World stand in awe of him The Lord looketh from Heaven he beholdeth all the Sons of Men. Depart from evil and do good seek Peace and pursue it From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the Inhabitants of the Earth He fashioneth all their hearts alike he considereth their works There is nothing saved by the multitude of an Host neither a mighty man delivered by great strength Behold the Eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him and upon them that hope in his mercy To deliver their Soul from Death and to keep them alive in Famine 33.5 8 13 14 15 16 18 19. I will bless the Lord at all times his praise shall continually be in my mouth O magnifie the Lord with me and let us extol his Name together I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears The poor cryeth and the Lord heareth him and saveth him out of all his troubles The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him and delivereth them O taste and see how good the Lord is to them that fear him and trusteth in him O fear the Lord ye his Saints for there is no want to them that fear him The â—â—ons do lack and suffer hunger but they that seek the Lord shall want no manner of thing that is good Keep thy Tongue from evil and thy Lips from speaking guile Depart from evil and do good seek peace and pursue it The Eyes of the Lord are over the Righteous and his Ears open unto their cry The Face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the Earth The Righteous cry and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all their troubles The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite Spirit Many are the troubles of the Righteous but the Lord delivereth them out of all Evil shall slay the Wicked and they that hate the Righteous shall be desolate The Lord redeemeth the Souls of his Servants and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate 34.1 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22. For he flattereth himself in his own Eye until his abominable Sins be found to be abominable For with thee is the fountain of Life and in thy Light shall we see Light O continue thy loving kindness unto them that know thee and thy righteousness to them that are upright in heaâ—â—â— 36.2 9 10. Fret not thy self because of the evil doers neither be envious against the workers of iniquity For they shall soon be cut down like the Grass and wither as the green herb Trust in the Lord and be doing good so shalt thou dwell in the Land and verily thou shalt be fed Delight thy self in the Lord and he shall give thee the desires of thy heart Commit thy way unto the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to pass Rest in the Lord and wait patiently upon him fret not thy self because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man that bringeth wicked devices to pass Cease from anger and forsake wrath fret not thy self in any wise to do evil For evil doers shall be cut off but those that wait upon the Lord they shall inherit the Land A little that the Righteous man hath is better than the riches of the ungodly The Wicked borroweth and payeth not again but the Righteous sheweth mercy and giveth For such as be blessed of God shall inherit the Land and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off The steps of a good man is blessed of the Lord and he delighteth in his way Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand I have been young and now am old yet never saw I the Righteous forsaken nor their seed begging their Bread He is ever merciful and lendeth and his Seed is blessed Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee to inherit the Land when the Wicked are cut off thou shalt see it I have seen the Wicked in great power and spreading himself like a green bay-tree Yet he passeth away and lo he was gone yea I sought him but he could not be found Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace The Salvation of the Righteous is of the Lord he is their strength in the time of trouble And the Lord shall help them and deliver them from the
Israel O God out of all his troubles be thou my Judge O Lord for I have walked innocently my trust hath been also in the Lord therefore shall I not fall examine me O Lord and prove me try out my Reins and Heart for thy loving kindness is always before mine eyes and I will walk in thy Truth But as for me I will walk innocently O Lord deliver me and be merciful unto me hearken unto my voice O Lord when I call unto thee have mercy upon me and hear me my heart hath talked of thee seek ye my face thy face Lord will I seek O hide not thou thy face from me nor cast away thy Servant in displeasure thou hast been my succour leave me not nor forsake me O God of my Salvation teach me thy way O Lord and lead me in the right way because of mine enemies Hear the voice of mine humble petitions when I cry unto thee when I hold up mine hand towards thy mercy Seat of thy Holy Temple O pluck me not away neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers which speak friendly to their Neighbours but imagine mischief in their hearts Save thy people and give thy blessing to thine Inheritance feed them and set them up for ever I will magnifie thee O Lord for thou hast set me up and made my foes to triumph over me O Lord my God I cry unto thee and thou hast healed me Hear O Lord and have mercy upon me Lord be thou my helper O most merciful God whose property is always to have Mercy and to forgive behold with the eyes of thy pity and compassion the state of thy humble Servant made most miserable by reason of my sins hear the voice of my weeping pity my groaning strengthen me for I am weak for my bones are vexed and deliver my Soul from Death that being saved from the bottomless pit I may give thanks to thy Holy Name O turn from the severity of thy displeasure and visit me with thy mercy and salvation for all my sins procure great sorrow and contrition and in my sickness let thy comfort sustain me through Jesus Christ my Lord Amen The Collect. O God who knowest me to be set in so many great dangers that by reason of the Frailty of Man I cannot always stand upright grant to me such strength and protection that may support me in all dangers and carry me through all Temptations through Jesus Christ my only Lord and Saviour Amen Another ALmighty and Everlasting God who hatest nothing that thou hast made and dost forgive the sins of all them that be penitent create and make in me a new and contrite Heart that I may worthily lamenting my sins and acknowledging my wretchedness obtain of thee the God of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen A Confession of sins and a Prayer for pardon IN thee O Lord have I put my trust let me never be put to confusion deliver me in thy Righteousness bow down thine Ear to hear me make haste to deliver me be thou my strong Rock and the house of Defence that thou mayest save me for thou art my strong Rock and Castle be thou also my guide and hear me for thy mercy sake draw me out of the Net that they have privily laid for me for thou art my strength into thy hand I commend my Spirit for thou hast redeemed me O Lord thou God of truth have mercy upon me O Lord for I am in trouble mine eyes are consumed for very heaviness yea my soul and my body for my life waxeth old with heaviness and my years with mourning my strength failed me because of mine iniquity and my bones but my hope hath been in thee O Lord I have said thou art my God shew thy Servant the light of thy countenance and save me for thy mercies sake I will give thanks unto thee O Lord his Prayers shall ever be in my Mouth O continue forth thy loving kindness unto them that fear thee and thy Righteousness unto them that are true of Heart put me not to rebuke O Lord in thine anger neither chasten me in thy heavy displeasure for thine Arrows stick fast in me and thine hand presseth me sore forsake me not O Lord my God be not thou far from me haste thee to help me O Lord God of my Salvation take away thy Plague from me for I am consumed by the means of pain Hear my Prayers O Lord and with thine Ears consider my calling hold not thy peace at my tears O Lord spare me for thy mercy sake that I may recover my strength before I go hence and be no more seen withhold not thou thy mercy from me save me for thy Mercy sake let thy loving kindness and thy truth alway preserve me O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me make haste O Lord to help me let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my Soul to destroy it let them be driven backward and put to rebuke that wish me evil let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee and let such as love thy Salvation say alway the Lord be praised thou art my helper and my Redeemer make no long tarrying O my God O Lord be merciful unto me heal my Soul for I have sinned against thee be merciful unto me O Lord raise thou me again because my trust is in thy mercy by this I know thou favourest me that my enemies do not triumph over me like as the Hart desireth the Water-brooks so longeth my Soul after thee O God my Soul is a thirst for God yea even for the living God when I shall come and appear before the presence of God God is my hope and my strength a very present help in trouble the Lord of Hosts is with me the God of Jacob is my refuge call upon me in time of trouble so will I hear and thou shalt praise me O Lord open thou my Lips that my Mouth may set forth thy praise Have mercy upon me O God after thy great goodness according to the multitude of thy mercy do away mine offences wash me throughly from my wickedness and make me clean from my sins for I acknowledge my fault and my sin is ever before me against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified in thy saying and clear when thou judgest thou shalt purge me with Hysop and I shall be clean thou shalt wash me and I shall be whiter than Snow thou shalt make me hear of joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce O give me the comfort of thy help again and establish me with thy free Spirit make me a clean Heart O God and renew a right Spirit within me cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me O be favourable and gracious unto Sion and build thou the
wickedness in me and lead me in the way everlasting Try me O Lord and seek the ground of my heart Prove me and examine my thoughts seeing there is nothing unknown unto thee O my God let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing Let me not be occupied in any ungodly words with the men that work wickedness lest I eat of such things as please them but let mine eyes look unto thee O Lord God in thee is my trust O cast not out my soul. Keep me from the snare that they have laid for me and from the traps of wicked doers O Lord God from whom cometh my salvation thou art my defence and strength my health and my glory give me thy grace that I may put my trust in thee alway and that I pour out my heart before thee in all my troubles that I may wait upon thee for the performance of all my expectation in all my longings and desires Be thou my defence uphold me that I may not fall into those great sins that lay waste my conscience or into such miseries as make me without hope or remedy the miseries of dispair obstinate malice or the woes of sad eternity Teach me to dispise Riches to disclaim all trust in the creatures not to delight in lies or vanities not to multiply wrongs and robbery that when thou shalt come with power and great glory to reward every man according to his works thou mayest be merciful unto me pardoning my sins and accepting me to life eternal through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen The Collect. O God the strength of all them that put their trust in thee mercifully accept my praise and because through the weakness of my mortal nature I can do no good thing without thee grant me the help of thy grace that in keeping of thy Commandments I may please thee both in will and deed through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen Another Collect. O Lord who never failest to help and govern them whom thou dost bring up in thy stedfast fear and love keep me I beseech thee under the protection of thy good providence and make me to have a perpetual love to thy holy Name through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen A Prayer for Spiritual Blessings and for fruitfulness of the Earth O Thou strength of my health thou hast covered my head in the day of Battle O Lord God consider my complaint for I am brought very low O deliver me from my persecutors for they are too strong for me Hear my prayers O Lord consider my desire hearken unto me for thy Truth and Righteousness sake Hear me O Lord and that soon for my Spirit waxeth faint hide not thy Face from me lest I be like to them that go down to the pit deliver me O Lord from mine enemies for I fly unto thee to hide me teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God let thy loving Spirit O Lord lead me in the way of Righteousness quicken me O Lord for thy name sake and for thy righteousness sake bring my Soul out of trouble and of thy goodness slay mine enemies and destroy all them that vex my Soul for I am thy Servant The Lord is Righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works the Lord is gracious and mercful long suffering and of great goodness in all his ways holy in all his works the Lord is gracious and merciful long suffering and of great goodness the Lord upholdeth all such as fall and lifteth up all those that be down O God the hope of all the ends of the Earth and of them that remain in the broad Sea be thou merciful unto my sins and let not my misdeeds prevail against me so as to make me habitually sinful or endlesly miserable but give me the blessings of thy chosen let me receive the influences of thy Grace and Benediction by the participation of thy Word and Sacrament in thy holy Temple and as thou embracest me with thy hand shewing wonderful things in thy Righteousness and Salvation so let thy right hand be under my head and give me such a portion of Temporal blessings as shall be necessary for me make the Earth plenteous and bless the encrease of it crown the year with goodness and let the Clouds drop fatness that the Valleys standing thick with Corn may laugh and sing thy praises and that we being refreshed with the multitude of thy blessings may praise thee in Sion and at last be satisfied with the pleasures of thy House in the Celestial Jerusalem where thou livest and reignest one God World without end Amen A Collect. O Lord I beseech thee mercifully to hear me and grant that I to whom thou hast given an hearty desire to pray may through thy mighty Aid be defended and comforted in all dangers and miseries through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Another Collect. O God the Protector of all them that trust in thee mercifully accept my prayers and grant my request O my God without thee nothing is strong nothing is holy increase and multiply upon me thy blessing that thou being my Ruler and Guide I may pass through things temporal that I lose not things eternal grant this O heavenly Father for Jesus Christ his sake my only Lord and Saviour Amen A Prayer to God for all Faithfull People for a blessing and deliverance from our Enemies MAke me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me O Lord my God give me the spirit of grace and wisdom Hear my prayers and let my cry come unto thee O Lord answer my expectations for Christ's sake and turn away thy face from my sins and blot out all my offences O Lord my God remember me according to the multitude of thy mercies do away all my offences according to the favour thou bearest to thy people O visit me with thy salvation I have sinned with my Forefathers I have done amiss I have done wickedly woe am I that I have gone astray from thee Great is my grief that have lead my life in sin Woe is me that I have forsaken thee and liv'd after my own thoughts and fantasie and not as thou wouldest but have run from sin to sin following the desires of my own corrupt heart and not as thou wouldest yet force me to repent of my evil therefore O Lord deal not with me according to my sins neither reward me after mine iniquities for thy mercy is greater than the Heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds O deliver me from my bosom sin O help me against the enemy for vain is the help of man but deal thou with me O Lord my God according to thy Name for sweet is thy mercy O deliver me for I am helpless and poor for my heart is wounded within me help O Lord my God oh save me according to thy mercies O look upon me and be merciful unto me as thou usest to be unto those that love thy
A Prayer for a Penitent Sinner O Lord withdraw not thou thy loving mercies from me Let thy loving kindness O Lord and thy truth alway preserve me O Lord let it be thy pleasure to deliver me from all my fear Make haste O Lord to help me As for me I am poor and needy but the Lord careth for me Thou art my Helper and Redeemer make no long tarrying O my God Hearken to my voice O Lord when I cry unto thee have mercy upon me and hear me O hide not thou thy face from me and cast not away thy servant in displeasure Thou hast been my succour leave me not neither forsake me O God of my salvation Consider my complaint O Lord for I am brought very low O deliver me from my persecutors for they are too strong for me Hear my prayer O Lord consider my desire hearken unto me for thy Truth and Righteousness sake and enter not into judgment with thy servant for in thy sight no man living can be justified Hear me O Lord and that soon for my spirit waxeth faint Hide not thy face from me lest I be like to them that go down to the pit O let me hear thy loving kindness betimes in the morning for in thee is my trust Shew thou me the way that I should walk in for I lift up my heart unto thee Deliver me O Lord from mine enemies for I fly unto thee to hide me Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee for thou art my God O let thy Spirit lead me forth into the Land of Righteousness Quicken me O Lord for thy Names sake and for thy Righteousness sake bring my soul out of trouble O my God and all for Jesus Christ his sake my blessed Lord and Saviour Amen A Commemoration of God's frequent pardons and mercies to the penitent O Lord God full of mercy and pity who didst many times deliver thy people from their adversity when thou for their rebellion against thee and their inventions hadst given them into the hands of the Heathen Remember me O Lord according to the favour thou bearest unto thy people and visit me with thy salvation And though I have done amiss and dealt wickedly against thee and thy Covenant yet be pleased to help me for thy Name sake Make thy power to be known in the mighty deliverance and redemption of me from so many dangers and miseries wherewith thou hast delivered me Give me grace to believe thy word to obey thy counsel and to walk in thy Laws to relinquish my own sinful and vain desire to obey my Governours Ecclesiastical and Civil that I may not have the lot of Dathan and Abyram but at last may receive my portion in thine inheritance which thou hast prepared for thy chosen people giving thee thanks with thine inheritance for that thou hast turned from me thy wrathful indignation pittying me and saving me according to the multitude of thy mercies thy Name be blessed O Lord God everlastingly and world without end through Jesus Christ my Lord Amen A Prayer for Victory against our Enemies O Lord God whose mercy is greater than the Heavens and thy glory above all the Earth be thou exalted in thine own strength and magnify thy power and thy mercy in defending me and thy holy Church against all our enemies temporal and spiritual Forsake me not O God my strength and my defence for vain is the help of man Do thou strengthen me and go along with me and stand by me in the day of battel that I being defended and armed by thee may do acts great and good fighting thy battel and putting my confidence in thy Righteousness only and thy salvation through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen A Prayer for the Fear of the Lord for Gravity and the blessing of the Righteous O Lord God who art to be feared in the generations of the world teach me the fear of thy Name that I may fear to offend thee and that delighting in thy Commandments I may serve thee without fear of my enemies in holiness and righteousness all my daies Let thy Light arise upon the darkness of my understanding Let thy mercies and gentleness turn all the thoughts of unmercifulness in me and make me charitable of tender bowels earning with pity over the need of the poor Teach me to guide my words with discretion Make me never to be moved from my purposes of holy living Stablish my heart in thy love that in the day of restitution of all things thou mayest give the portion of the charitable the rewards of thy Right hand and when the wicked shall gnash with their teeth and consume away in a sad Eternity I may be satisfied with the Riches and plentiousness of thy house for ever through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen A Prayer against my Adversaries and for Confidence in the True God O Lord God at whose presence the Earth trembles who worketh salvation and deliverance for thy Church in Ages thou hast done whatsoever pleaseth thee in Heaven and in Earth give me thy grace that in all my troubles I make thee my succour and defence and put my whole trust in thee only that I receiving thy mercies and the satisfaction of all my hopes from thy plentiousness and loving kindness I may give praise unto thy Name never ascribing unto my self any honour or the glory or thanks of any good action or prosperous success but to thee who art the Author and giver of all good things preserve me from all evil of soul and body from vain imaginations and making any thing to be my confidence besides thee my God that so thou mayest be mindful of me and bless me in all my waies and actions and when I die and go down into silence I may have my portion among the blessed of the Lord in the inheritance of thy Kingdom through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen A Prayer O Thou Almighty Goodness the Father of the Fatherless the portion of the poor and protector of strangers cast thy gracious eyes upon a miserable sinner who with humility implores thy mercy When I look on my self I dare scarce be so bold as to lift up mine eyes unto thee When I think in what condition I am and what I have done it so confounds me that I can hardly think of any thing else it is the greatness of my misery alone that constrains me to the presumption of prostrating my self at thy feet the weight of which presseth me so much that it hath left me no more power than to expose my self before thee as an admirer of thy wondrous charity O my sins are wondrous great in which all comfort forsakes my soul. O thy terrours have consumed me how dreadful are they O the affliction and torment I endure what tongue can express it my soul is parch'd and dried up my spirits are consumed by the heat of thy displeasure may I not now beg one drop of comfort from thee O my God my
Saints may be fulfilled and the Glory of thee of our Lord Jesu and daily add to the number of thy beautified servants such as shall be saved that thy coming may be hastened and the expectation of the Saints may be fulfilled and advanced and all the whole Church singing praise to the honour of thy Name who liveth and reigneth ever one God world without end Amen The 51. O Most merciful Jesu who didst die to redeem us from death and damnation have mercy upon this thy servant whom thy hand has visited with sickness of thy goodness be pleased to forgive him all his sins and seal his hopes of glory with the refreshments of thy Holy Spirit Lord give him strength confidence in thee asswage his pain repel the assaults of his ghostly enemies and give him a guard of holy Angels preserve him in the unity of the Church keep his senses entire his understanding right give him great measure of contrition true faith a well grounded hope and abundant charity give him a quiet and a joyful departure let thy ministring spirits convey his soul to the mansions of peace and rest there with certainty to expect a joyful Resurrection to the fulness of Joy at thy right hand where there is pleasure for ever more Amen A Prayer for the Joyes of Heaven O Most glorious Jesu who art the portion and the exceeding great reward of all faithful people thou hast beautified humane nature with glorious Immortality and hast carried the same above all Heavens above the seat of Angels beyond the Cherubims and Seraphims placing it on the right hand of thy heavenly Father grant to us all the issues of thy abundant charity that we may live in thy fear and die in thy favour prepare our souls with heavenly Joyes making us righteous here that we may be blessed hereafter through thy great mercy Amen A Prayer for the Morning at the first kneeling down saying Holy blessed and glorious Trinity Three Persons and One God have mercy up-me a miserable sinner Lord I know not what to pray for as I ought O let thy Spirit help my infirmities and enable me to offer up a spiritual Sacrifice acceptable to thee by Jesus Christ. O Most gracious Lord whose mercies endureth for ever I thy unworthy servant who have so largely tasted of them desire to render thee the tribute of my humblest praises for them In thee O Lord I live move and have my being thou hast made me to be and then that I might not be miserable but happy thou sendest thy Son out of thy bosom to redeem me from the power of my sins by his grace and from the punishment of them by his blood and by both of them to bring me to his glory Thou hast by thy mercy caused me to be born within thy particular fold the Christian Church where I was early consecrated to thee in Baptism and have been partaker of all those spiritual helps which might aid me to perform that vow I there made to thee and when by my own wilfulness or negligence I have fallen to do ill yet thou in thy manifold mercies hast not forsaken me but hast graciously invited me to Repentance aforded me all means both outwardly and inwardly for it and with patience hast attended and not cut me off for the acts of those many damning sins I have committed as I have most justly deserved thou art glorious in thy manifold mercies O Lord in thy restraining grace by which I have been kept back from any of the greatest sins and in thy inciting grace by which I have been enabled to do the least good therefore not unto me but unto thy Name be praises for these and all other spiritual blessings My soul doth magnifie the Lord and all that is within me praise his holy Name I likewise praise thee for those many outward blessings I enjoy as health friends food and rayment the comforts as well as the necessaries of this life for those continual protections of thy hand by which I and mine are kept from dangers and those gracious deliverances thou hast often aforded out of such as have befallen me and for that mercy of thine whereby thou hast sweetened and allayed those troubles thou seest not fit wholly to remove for thy particular care of me this night and all other thy goodness towards me Lord grant that I may render unto thee not only the fruit of my lips but the obedience of my life that so these blessings here may be an earnest of those richer blessings thou hast prepared for those that love thee and that for his sake whom thou hast made the Author of eternal salvation to all that obey him even Jesus Christ. Amen A Confession O Righteous Lord who hatest iniquity I thy sinful creature cast my self at thy feet acknowledging that I most justly deserve to be utterly abhorred and forsaken by thee for I have drunk in iniquity like water gone on in a continued course of sin and rebellion against thee daily committing those sins thou forbidest and leaving undone those things thou commandest Mine heart which should be an habitation for thy Spirit is become a cage of unclean birds of foul and disordered affections and out of this abundance of the heart my mouth speaketh my hands act so that in thought word and deed I continually transgress against thee O Lord I have done amiss I have dealt wickedly the good I would do I do it not but the evil I should not that do I. O my God be merciful unto me for my luxury pride covetousness and all wandring thoughts and worldly imaginations Nay O Lord I have despised that goodness of thine which should have lead me to repentance hardning my heart against all those means thou hast used for my amendment and now Lord what can I expect from thee but judgment and fiery indignation that is indeed the due reward of my sins But O Lord there is mercy with thee that thou mayest be feared O fit me for that mercy by giving me a deep and a hearty Repentance and then according to thy goodness let thine anger and thy wrath be turned away Look upon me in thy Son my blessed Saviour and for the merits of his sufferings pardon all my sins and Lord I beseech thee by the power of thy grace so to renew and purifie my heart that I may become a new creature utterly forsaking every evil way living in constant sincere universal obedience to thee all the rest of my daies behaving my self as a good and faithful servant I may at the last be received into the Joy of my Lord grant this for Jesus Christ his sake Amen A Prayer for Grace O Most gracious God from whom every good and perfect gift cometh I a wretched sinner that am not able of my self so much as to think a good thought beseech thee to work in me both to will and to do of thy good pleasure what thou requirest of me enlighten
end everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen A Thanksgiving O Thou Father of mercy who art kind even to the unthankful I acknowledge my self to have abundantly experimented that gracious property of thine for notwithstanding my daily provocations against thee thou still heapest mercy and loving kindness upon me all my contemnings and despisings thy spiritual favours hath not yet made thee withdraw them but yet in the riches of thy goodness thou still continuest to me the offers of thy grace and life in thy Son and all my abuses of thy temporal blessings thou hast not punished with an utter depravation of them but still art pleased to afford me a liberal portion of them the sins of this day thou hast not repayed as justly thou mightest by sweeping me away with a swift destruction but hast spared me and preserved me according to the greatness of thy mercy here mention the particular mercies of this day What shall I render unto the Lord for all these benefits he hath done unto me Lord let this goodness of thine lead me to hearty repentance and grant that I may not only offer thee thanks and praise but may also order my conversation aright that so I may at the last see the salvation of God through Jesus Christ. Amen Here use the Prayer for grace and that Intercession appointed for the morning For Preservation O Blessed Lord keeper of Israel that neither slumberest nor sleepest be pleased in thy mercy to watch over me this night keep me by thy grace from the works of darkness and defend me by thy power from all dangers grant me moderate rest and sleep such as may fit me for the duties of the next day following and Lord make me ever mindful of that time when I shall lie down in the dust and I know neither the day nor the hour of my Master's coming grant me grace that I may alwaies fear thee and that I may never live in such a state as I shall fear to die but that whether I live I may live unto the Lord or whether I die I may die unto the Lord so that living and dying I may be thine through Jesus Christ. Amen Let thy Bed put thee in mind of thy grave and when thou lyest down say O Blessed Saviour who by thy precious death and burial didst take the sting of death and the power of the grave grant me the joyful fruits of that victory and be thou to me in life and death advantage I will lay me down in peace and take my rest for it is thou O Lord only that makest me dwell in safety into thy hands I commend my spirit for thou hast redeemed it O Lord thou God of Truth Collects for several Graces For Faith O Blessed Lord seeing without Faith it is impossible to please thee let thy Spirit I beseech thee work in me such a Faith as may be acceptable in thy sight even such as worketh by Love O let me not rest in a dead ineffectual Faith but grant that it may be such as may shew it self by my works that it may be that victorious Faith which may enable me to overcome the world and conform me to the Image of that Christ on whom I believe that so at the last I may receive the end of my Faith even the salvation of my soul by the same Jesus Christ. Amen For the Love of God O Holy and gracious Lord who art infinitely excellent in thy self and infinitely bountiful and compassionate towards me I beseech thee suffer not my heart to be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin but let the offers of thy Love make deep impressions on my soul. Lord thou art pleased to require my heart and thou only hast right to it O let me not be so sacriligiously unjust as to alienate any part of it but enable me to render it up whole and entire to thee but O my God thou seest it already usurped the world with its vanities hath seized it and like a strong man armed keeps possession O thou who art stronger come upon him and take this unworthy heart of mine as thine own spoil refine it with that purifying fire of thy Love that it may be a fit habitation for thy Spirit Lord if thou seest it be pleased to make me taste of those Joyes those ravishments of thy Love wherewith thy soul hath been so transported But if in this I know not what I ask if I may not chuse my place in thy Kingdom yet O Lord deny me not to drink of thy Cup let me have such a sincerity and degree of Love as may make me endure any thing for thy sake such a perfect Love as may cast out all fear and all sloth too that nothing may seem to me grievous to suffer or too difficult to do in obedience to thee that so expressing my love by keeping thy Commandments I may by thy mercy at last obtain that Crown of Glory which thou hast promised to those that love thee through Jesus Christ. Amen For Devotion in Prayer O Most gracious Lord God who not only permittest us miserable sinners and needy creatures to present our petitions to thee grant I beseech thee that the frequency of my prayer may be somewhat proportionable to those continual needs I have of thy mercy Lord I confess it is the greatest honour and greatest advantage thus to be allowed access to thee yet sottish and stupid is my prophane heart that it shuns or frustrates the opportunities of it My soul O Lord is possest with a spirit of infirmity it is bowed together and can in no wise lift up it self to thee O be thou pleased to cure this sad this miserable disease to raise and enliven this earthly drowsy heart that it may freely mount towards thee that I may set a true value on this most valuable priviledge and take delight in my approaching to thee and that my approaches may be with a reverence some way answerable to that awful Majesty I come before with an importunity and earnestness answerable to those pressing wants I have to be supplied and with such a fixed attention of mind as no wandring thoughts may interrupt that I may no more incur the guilt of drawing near to thee with my lips when my heart is far from thee or my prayers turned into sin but may so ask that I may receive seek that I may find knock that it may be open unto me that from praying to thee here I may be translated to the praising thee eternally in thy glory through the merits and intercession of Jesus Christ. Amen For the Fear of God O Most glorious Majesty who only art High and to be feared possess my soul with a holy awe and reverence of thee that I may give thee the honour due to thy Name and may bear such a respect to all things which relate to thee that I may never prophane any holy thing or sacriligiously invade what thou hast set
apart to thy self And O Lord since thou art a God that wilt not clear the guilty let the dread of thy Justice make me tremble to provoke thee in any thing O let me not so mis-place my fear as to be afraid of a man that shall die and of the Son of Man who shall be made as grass and forget the Lord my Maker but replenish my soul with the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom which may be as a bridle to all my brutish appetites and keep me in a constant conformity to thy holy Will Hear me O Lord I beseech thee and put this fear in my heart that I may not depart from thee but may with fear and trembling work out my own salvation through Jesus Christ. Amen For Thankfulness O Most gracious and bountiful Lord who fillest all things with goodness and expectest no other return but praise and thanksgiving let me O Lord never defraud thee of that so easie tribute but let my heart be ever filled with a sense and my mouth with the acknowledgment of thy mercies It is a joyful and pleasant thing to be thankful O suffer me not I beseech thee to lose my part in that Divine pleasure but grant that as I daily receive blessings from thee so I may daily from an affectionate and devout heart offer up thanks to thee and grant that not only my lips but my life may shew forth thy praise by consecrating my self to thy service and walking in holiness and righteousness before thee all the daies of my life through Jesus Christ my Lord and blessed Saviour Amen For Chastity O Holy and Immortal Jesus whose first descent was into the Virgins Womb and who didst love to inhabit only in pure and Virgins hearts I beseech thee send thy Spirit of purity to cleanse me from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit My body O Lord is the Temple of the Holy Ghost O let me never pollute that Temple with any uncleanness and because out of the heart proceed the things that defile the man Lord grant me to keep my heart with all diligence that no impure or foul thoughts be harboured there but enable me I beseech thee to keep both soul and body pure and undefiled that so I may glorifie thee here both in body and soul and spirit and be glorified in both with Christ hereafter Amen For Contentedness O Merciful God thy Wisdom is infinite to chuse and thy Love forward to dispence good things to us O let me alwaies fully and entirely resign my self to thy disposals have no desire of my own but a perfect satisfaction in thy chusings for me that so in whatsoever state I am I may be therein content Lord grant I may never look with murmuring on my own condition nor with envy on other mens and to that end I beseech thee purge my heart of all covetous desires and affections O let me never yield any corner of my soul to Mammon but give me such a contempt of these fading riches that whether they decrease or increase I may never set my heart upon them but that all my care may be to be rich towards God to lay up my treasure in Heaven that I may so set my affections on things above that when Christ who is my life shall appear I may also appear with him in glory grant this O Lord for the merit of the same Jesus Christ. Amen For Perseverance O Eternal and unchangeable Lord God who art the same yesterday to day and for ever be thou pleased to communicate some rayes of that excellency some degree of that stability to me thy wretched creature who am light and unconstant turned about with every blast My understanding is very deceivable O stablish it with thy truth keep it from the snares of seducing spirits that I may not be lead away with the errours of the wicked and fall from mine own stedfastness My will also O Lord is irresolute and wavering and doth not cleave stedfastly unto God My goodness is but as a morning cloud and as the early dew it passeth away O strengthen and confirm me and whatsoever good thou hast wrought in me be pleased to accomplish it and perform it until the day of Christ. Lord thou seest my weakness and knowest the number and strength of those temptations I am to struggle with O leave me not to my self but cover thou my head in the day of battel and in all spiritual combats make me more than Conquerour through him that loved me O let no terrours or flatteries either of the world or my own flesh ever draw me from my obedience to thee but grant that I may continue stedfast unmoveable alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord by patient continuance in well doing seeking and at last obtain glory through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen A Prayer before the Receiving of the Blessed Sacrament O Most merciful God who hast in thy great goodness prepared this Spiritual Feast for sick and famished souls make my desires and longings after it answerable to my needs of it I have with the Prodigal wasted that portion of grace thou bestowedst upon me therefore do infinitely want a supply out of this Treasury but O Lord how shall such a wretch as I dare to approach this holy Table I am a Dog how shall I presume to take the Childrens bread or how shall this spiritual Manna this food of Angels be given to one who hath chosen to feed on husks with Swine nay to one who hath already so often trampled these precious things under foot either carelesly neglecting or unworthily refusing those holy precious Mysteries O Lord my horrible guiltiness makes me tremble to come and makes me not dare to keep away for where O Lord shall my polluted soul be washed if not in this fountain which thou hast opened for sin and for uncleanness hitherto therefore I come and thou hast promised that him that cometh to thee thou wilt in no wise cast out This is O Lord the Blood of the New Testament grant to me so to receive it that it may be to me for remission of sins and though I have so often and so wickedly broken my part of that Covenant whereof this Sacrament is a seal yet be thou graciously pleased to make thine good to be merciful to my unrighteousness and to remember my sins and my iniquities no more and not only so but to put thy Laws in my heart and to write them in my mind and by the power of thy grace dispose my soul to such a sincere and constant obedience that I may never again provoke thee Lord grant that in these holy Mysteries I may not only commemorate but effectually receive my blessed Saviour and all the benefits of his passion and to that end give me such a preparation of soul as may qualifie me for it Give me a deep sense of my sins and unworthiness that being weary and heavy laden I
from that curse and judgment which is due unto me for them Thou that didst justifie the contrite Publican for four words of confession and receivedst the prodigal Child when he had spent all the stock of grace into favour upon his repentance pardon all my sins likewise O Lord and suffer me not to perish for my transgressions O spare me for thy mercy sake and receive me unto favour again Wilt thou O Lord reject me who hast received all Publicans and sinners that upon repentance sued unto thee for grace Shall I alone be excluded from thy mercy far be it from me to think so for thou art the same God of mercy unto me that thou wast unto them and thy compassion never fails wherefore O Lord deal not with me after my merits but according to thy great mercy execute not thy severe justice against me a sinner but execute thy long-sufferance in forbearing thine own creature I have nothing to present unto thee for a satisfaction but only those bloody wounds bitter death and passion which thy blessed Son my only Saviour hath suffered for me him in whom only thou art well pleased I offer up unto thee for all my sins wherewith thou art displeased he my Mediator the request of whose blood speaking better things than that of Abel thy mercy can never gainsay illuminate my understanding and sanctifie my heart with thy holy Spirit that it may bring to my remembrance all those good and profitable lessons which this day or at any other time hath been taught unto me out of thy holy Word that I may remember them thy Commandments to keep them thy Judgments to avoid them and thy sweet promises to rely upon them in time of misery and distress and now O Lord I resign my self to thy most holy Will O receive me into thy favour and so draw me by thy grace unto thy self that I may as well be thine by Love and Implantation as by Calling and Creation and give me grace so to keep holy thy Sabbath in this life as that when this life is ended I may with all thy Saints and Angels celebrate an eternal rest of joy and praise to the honour of thy most holy Name in thy heavenly Kingdom for ever more Amen Devotions for several Occasions In the Name of the Father of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Our Father which art in Heaven c. A Morning Prayer O Eternal Son of Righteousness who camest from the bosom of the Father to enlighten the darkness of the world I praise thy Name that thou hast preserved me from the danger of this night and hast continued to me still the opportunities of serving thee and advancing my hopes of a blessed eternity let thy mercies shine brightly upon me and dissipate the clouds and darknesses of my spirit and understanding rectifie my affections and purifie my will and all my actions that whatsoever I shall do or suffer this day or in my whole life my words and purposes my thoughts and all my intentions may be sanctified and be acceptable to thy Divine Majesty Amen Grant that my understanding may know thee my heart may love thee and all my faculties and powers may give thee due obedience and serve thee preserve me this day from all sin and danger from all violences and snares of mine enemies visible or invisible let thy holy fear be as a bridle to my distemperatures and thy love so enkindle and actuate all my endeavours that no pleasures or allurements of the world may draw me from thy service nor any difficulty or temptation may be my hinderance let the profound humility and innocence of my blessed Saviour keep from me all pride and haughtiness of mind all self-love and vain-glory all obstinacy and disobedience all fraudulency and hurtful dissimulation and let the graces of the Holy Ghost take such absolute possession and seisure of my soul and all his faculties that I may bring down and east out the spirit of uncleanness and intemperance of malice and envy idleness and disdain that I may never despise any of thy creatures but my self that so being little in my own fight I may be great in thine Amen An Evening Prayer In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Our Father which art in Heaven c. O Lord God who art the light and splendor of souls in the brightness of thy countenance is eternal day that knows no night in thy arms and in thy protection is all quietness tranquility and everlasting repose while the darkness covers the face of the earth receive my body and soul into thy custody let not the spirits of darkness come near my dwelling neither suffer my fancy to be abused with the illusions of the night Lord I am thy servant and the sheep of thy pasture let not the Devil who goeth up and down seeking whom he may devour abuse my body or make a prey of my soul but defend me from all those calamities which I have deserved and protect my soul that it consent not to any work of darkness lest mine enemy say he hath prevailed over me or do mischief to a soul redeemed with thy most precious blood Amen Pardon and forgive me all the sins and offences of my youth and age the errours of mine understanding the inordination of mine affections the irregularity of all my actions and particularly of whatsoever I have transgressed this day in thought word or deed Lord let not thy wrath arise for although I have deserved the extremest pressure of thine indignation yet remember my infirmity and how thou hast sent thy Son to reveal thy infinite mercy to us and convey pardon and salvation to the penitent I beseech thee also to accept the heartiest devotion and humble acknowledgment of a thankful heart for all thy blessings and preservation of me this day for unless thy providence and grace had been my defence and guide I had committed more and more grievous sins against thee and had been swallowed up by thy just wrath and severest judgments mercy sweet Jesus Amen Grant unto thy servant true humility great contrition a tender conscience and obedient heart an understanding alwaies busied in honest and pious thoughts a wiling tractable heart and ever prone to do good affections even and moderate a watchful custody over my senses that by those windows sin may never enter in nor death by sin make me to watch over my tongue and keep the door of my lips that no corrupt or unseemly communication proceed out of my mouth that I may never slander calumniate or detract from the reputation of my neighbour that I be not busie in the faults of others but careful to correct my own being gentle and merciful to others severe towards my self that I may speak much of thy praises and what I can for the edification of my Brethren Amen Give me a soul watchful in the service of Religion constant in holy purposes
soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a barren and dry ground I remember thy loving kindness of old time I can but wish at least to see thy power and thy glory as I have known thee in thy Sanctuary There is none in Heaven that I desire but thee nor on Earth besides thee My soul followeth hard after thee O when wilt thou come unto me O hide not thy face from thy servant lest I come to misery Hear me speedily for I am poor and needy Make haste unto me O my God thou art my helper and deliverer O Lord make no long tarrying I am come a great way from my friends and kindred and here is none to pity me O my God be not thou far from me Draw nigh unto my soul and redeem it I am poor and sorrowful let thy salvation set me up on high for thou who searchest the heart knowest that I set my heart only to seek thee I desire to leave all the world that I may find my happiness only in thee O heavenly Father with my whole heart I desire to do thy blessed will in all things yea thus far I acknowledge thou hast most gratefully conducted me Hitherto I have been highly favoured and wonderfully helped and preserved by thee and wilt thou now at last abandon me who desire at last to have abandoned all things else for thy sake Hast thou called me from mine own Country and from my Fathers house and now to be forsaken by thee O my God give me leave to plead for a soul that I thought was once dear unto thee Pity O pity an heart which thou hast made too great for all the world and cannot be satisfied with less than thee Canst thou see it die for want of one smile from thee yea canst thou let it die of love to thee for that hath brought me thus far to seek thee and wilt thou suffer it to die at thy feet canst thou endure to behold it in thine arms into which it now throws it self with all the force it hath shall it miscarry full of prayers and longings after thee shall it expire in cries and tears when it calls for mercy O where are thy bowels what is become of thine ancient loving kindness are they all forfeited by one offence against thee O my God I cannot think so hardly of thee I begin to live methinks because thou permittest these addresses to thee it inspires me with some hopes to find these holy breathings in me it rejoyces me much that I feel thee drawing my very heart after thee O take it I beseech thee take it quite away from me unto thy self shape it after thine own heart make it such as thou canst embrace it create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me Restore to me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit and all this for Jesus Christ his sake Amen Ejaculations to be used at the Lord's Supper LOrd I am not worthy thou shouldest come under my roof I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men Here recollect some of thy greatest sins If thou Lord shouldest be extream to mark what is done amiss O Lord who may abide it but with the Lord there is mercy and with him there is plentious redemption Behold O Lord thy Beloved Son in whom thou art well pleased Hearken to the cry of his blood which speaketh better things than that of Abel by his Agony and bloody Sweat by his Cross and Passion good Lord deliver us O Lamb of God which takest away the sins of the world grant us thy peace O Lamb of God which takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon me O Lord for thy mercy sake Amen Devotions for the Help and assistance of all Christian People in all occasions and necessities A Prayer against wandring Thoughts to be said at the beginning of our Devotions ALmighty God who hast commanded us to pray unto thee without ceasing and hast added many glorious promises for our encouragement let thy holy Spirit teach me how to pray Give me just apprehension of my want zeal of thy glory great resentments of thy mercies love of all spiritual employments that are pleasing unto thee and do thou help mine infirmities that the Devil may not abuse my fancy with illusions nor distract my mind with cares nor alienate my thoughts with impertinencies but give me a perfect mind great devotion a heart fixed upon thy Divine Beauties and an actual intention and perseverance in prayer that I may glorifie thy Name do unto thee true and laudable service and obtain relief for all my necessities hear me O King of Heaven when I call upon thee for thou hast promised mercy to them that pray in the Name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen A Penitential Prayer a Form of Confession of sins to God to be said upon daies of publick or private Humiliation O Lord God of mercy and pardon give me a just remembrance and sad apprehension of my many and great sins Teach me to bewail them with as great indignation and bitterness as I have committed them with complacency and delight Let my prayers and my confession come unto thy presence and obtain a mercy for me and a pardon Let not thy Justice and thy severity so remember my sins as to forget thine own mercy and though I have committed that for which I have deserved to be condemned yet thou canst not lose that glorious Attribute whence flows comfort to us and hopes to be saved Spare me therefore O merciful God for to give pardon to a sinner that confesseth his sins and begs Remission it is not impossible to thy Power nor disproportionate to thy Justice nor unusual to thy Mercy and sweetest Clemency Blessed Jesu acknowledge in me whatsoever is thine and cleanse me from whatsoever is amiss Have pity on me now in the time of mercy and condemn me not when thou comest to judgment For what profit is there in my blood Thou delightest not in the death of a sinner but in his conversion there is joy in Heaven And when thou hast delivered me from my sins and saved my soul I shall praise and magnifie thy Name to all eternity mercy sweet Jesus mercy Lord have mercy upon us Christ have mercy upon us Lord have mercy upon us Our Father which art in Heaven c. I Am not worthy O Lord to look up to Heaven which is the Throne of thy Purity for my sins are more in number than the hairs of my head and my heart hath failed me Lord be merciful unto me a sinner I have not lived according to thy will but in the vanity of my own thoughts in idle sinful and impertinent language in foolish actions in blindness of heart in contempt of thy holy Word and Commandments I